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#ThingsGentrifiersDo Places Spotlight On The Harsh Truths Of Gentrification

2015-01-06 05:06:27| Grocery - Topix.net

The hashtag "Things Gentrifiers Do" trended on Twitter Monday evening and shed an honest light on what happens when gentrification takes over a predominately black or brown neighborhood. While most may associate obvious gentrification with the addition of a Whole Foods Market, a Wal-Mart or a newly added bike lane, those who participated and added to the hashtag Tweeted the small intricacies and differences that now play a huge part in the day-to-day of lifelong residents of neighborhoods who must now deal with rising rent prices, the shutting down of local businesses and being pushed out of an area they one called home.

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White fight! Vandal wages one-person battle against Flatbush gentrification

2014-09-22 20:35:09| Railroads - Topix.net

Anti-white-gentrification graffiti has greeted straphangers on the platform of a Flatbush subway station for the last six months. The tags bearing messages such as "Fight white gentrification of FBush" and "Keep Flatbush black" have been scrawled across the pillars of the Church Avenue B and Q station as recently as Thursday and the unknown vandal behind them has penned new messages each time Metropolitan Transportation Authority workers painted over the last batch, as they did on Friday.

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